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Right? >> there was a very complex and subtle religiosity and spirituality and sense of identity that he had. his own family history, the peoples history, the culture, the language, all the text, the great tradition of it -- >> bret: your father and mother liked to the music. >> they created an organization pro music at the break, thought to find and save and revise jewish music, classical music written by jewish composers in a jewish style that had otherwise been lost to history and to bring it...

"special report" every night, we would meet on monday nights, and it was too exhausting. >> bret: he blamed his lack of chess playing on me. >> thank you, by the way. but i remember when he mentions is monday night chess club. he had an entire room that was the chest room, it was monday nights, and they would have three, four, five games going at a time. and no talking. >> bret: genius, insanity, innocence, august 20th, 1993. chess enjoys in unholy reputation for psychic derangement. when not wi...

The porch reading the declaration of the independence. >> absolutely. he had a very big picture view of the world of history, and i think thats what made his political analysis of a different order, he was not just talking about the politics that they get this candle or this election, it was what does this mean in the grand scheme of m everything? thats another layer of what i wanted to finish it for my dad and put it out there, because i think his ideas can apply at anytime, anyplace. >> bret: ...

This was the way it was. >> bret: charles never wrote with more urgency than in the wake of the terror attacks. your dad was an advocate for muscular response post 9/11. did he look back and say, maybe we should not of been that aggressive? >> i think his words before himself very well in the book. >> "iraq was problematic. people forget that there was broad support from the public and congress including from those who became the highest ranking foreign policies figures in the obama administrati...

♪ >> bret: daniel krauthammer was born in 1985. by the time he was in high school, the cold war was over, the nation was saved, and the dot-com economy was booming. charles knew it could not last. but how do you get a bunch of teenagers to listen? >> heres how it works, there is a spring campaign in a fall campaign. >> bret: did he know all of your friends? >> yes, everybody went to our house. he was one of the favorites if not the favorite dad on the block. >> this game is so much like the re...

Of thehe jewish religion, and physics and astrophysics, and thinking about the universe. and he often liked to quote einstein, with one in the same with nature, how miraculous it is that we live in the universe for all of the physical laws allow life to exist and allow us to come about, to think, to have consciousness, that if one does not have some kind of reverence for that, then youre missing something.th >> bret: he obviously passed that on, the reverence on to y you. >> i have had my own re...

In the book, he really gets into the nature of what liberal democracy means, and why that is leading america flourish. >> "let us begin on thanksgiving by giving things that we are not french. and i say this was no malice. i mean it this way. we both had glorious, liberating revolutions. but ours was not cursed by excessive rationalism. nor by its twin, hatred of religion. the american revolution repatriated liberty, and established a new political order. but its ambition stopped there. it left ...

And when we got the final prognosis, it was only a few weeks that we had. and he entrusted it to me to finish for him. and the last thing he said to me about it, dont publish it if it is not worthy. and i took that to heart in a way that is more important to me than anything. >> bret: he chose most of the pieces. you chose some too. >> he put together most of the pieces that are in the book now. but i also read through quite literally everything he ever wrote. and also speeches, transcripts, int...

And all-encompassing." >> bret: you really like the way that he ended pieces, why? >> he has a way of drawing you logically to the end of his argument, but then he steps back ar a minute and leaves you with an uncertainty to ponder, whether it is bioethics, or the nature of the universe and god and space, that there are mysteries that we do not to know now, and we may never know. and that may be the definingha part of what it means to be human. my father has now made the step into the greatest u...

Was nice, and then when he was one, i wrote one on his first birthday. and then i realized i am never going to do this again. this is using him, this is going to be his vision of his self through my eyes. and i simply wont do it. so rather than a reference to him here or there, i never wrote about them again, ever. two things in 28 years. im not a touchy, feeley guy. thats probably why i quit psychiatry. if you are not in the feelings and emotions and all the back story, then you ought to be doi...